Local English word record

commemorate

verb · 3 senses

call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony

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Examples

  • We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
  • Remember the dead of the First World War

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Synonyms

remember

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